The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-19 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—The Lord Chief Justice is
still suffering from the effects of his accident at Lewes.
He has received a severe shock to the system, and suffers a
great deal of pain, but there is happily no reason to appre-
hend that the effects will be more than temporary.
THE BEGGING IMPOSTOR.—AIfred Rodwell, a begging-
setter writer, who bad attempted to impose on the Duchess
of Cambridge, by a petition, of which some of the signatures
were forgeries, backed by a letter the date of which had
been altered, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
at Bow-street, on Thursday.
LORD ST. LEONARDS.—At the Lewes Assizes Lord St.
Leonards brought an action against a Mr. Ashburner for
cutting down trees on the Tilgate estate. The object was
to assert Lord St. Leonards's claim to a portion of the
estate, which is part of St. Leonard's Forest. The vene-
rable plaintiff, who is about L'O years of age was examined
as witness, and gave his evidence with clearness
and energy. He claimed the land as having
been bought and paid for more than forty years ago. lie
was asked if he had his title-deeds with him, but he said
that he had kept them away purposely in order to try the
rule, which he thought one of the most valuable of our
roles of law, that a man was not forced to produce his
title-deeds to his antagonist to enable to pack not (
in his title to land, of which he had been long in
possession. The case lasted all day, and was not con-
cluded.

A correspondent at Chatham writes by date
Thursday :—"A party of workmen, transferred from Dept-
ford dockyard in consequence of the approaching close of
that place as a building yard, arrived Lere to-day to be
employed in Chatham yard. The party was formed of
one inspector, one leading man, and twenty ship-
wrights, established hands. There will be another arrival
shortly of one inspector, two leading men, and thirty-four
shipwrights, making a total addition to this establishment
of fifty-four shipwrights, three leading men, and two
inspectors."

DEATH OF LORD LECONFIELD. —We have to
record the death, at Petworth, Sussex, upon the 18th inst.,
of George, Lord Leconfield, in his 82nd year. He served
on Sir Eyre Coote's staff in the West Indies, accompanied
the Walcheren Expedition, was present at the siege of
Ciudad Rodrigo, and served with the 12th Dragoons in
Catalonia. He married ih 1815 Mary Fanny, only
daughter of the Rev. William Blunt, of Crabbett, Sussex.
Upon the death of his father, George O'Brien, Earl of
Egremont, he succeeded to his estates, and was raised to
the peerage by the title of Baron Leaconfield in 1859.

DEATH OF ANOTHER BETTING MAN. —" Hotspur,"
writing on Thursday to the Telegraph, says: " The condition
of Squire Heathcote became worse suddenly this after-
noon, and I regret that I have now to add that this fine
sportsman died at ten minutes past nine this evening, at
Epsom. Mr. Heathcote, who was only 40 years
of age, has long occupied a distinguished position as
a straightfol ward sportsman on the Turf, and an
intrepid and skilful rider to hounds. The sport afforded
by his celebrated staghounds will long be remembered by
those who participated in the many good runs that came
off under the judicious management of the Squire. On
the Turf he was generally successful, his most notable coup
being the Chester Cup victory with l3eeswing in 1867.
The illness which caused his death was gastric fever, and
only yesterday the disease took
that sanguine hopes were enter aleed that he
would recover. As above stated, however, a sudden
change for the worst proved fatal. Following so soon
after the deaths of Lord Glasgow and Mr. Stephenson,
the decease of Mr. Heathcote is likely to cast great gloom
on the followers of racing. His is not the only item of
bad news to be quoted to-day, as much excitement pre-
vails at Epsom in consequence of its . becoming known
that Timothy Barnard, jun., had committed suicide
by cutting his throat." .
FOREIGN HAlM—Through the kindness of a
correspondent well known in botanical circles, we have
had an opportunity of examining a remarkable specimen
of prepared meat, stated to be a "portion of a West-
phalian ham," sold in London for 16s. as an article of food.
The slice is about one inch square and one-third of an inch
in thickness, weighing considerably less than half an ounce.
It could readily be swallowed as a single mouthful. From
its odour and appearance, we should say that the only
" smoking " it has undergone is such as would be imparted
by a few hours' immersion in a solution of creosote. At all
events the museular fibres have . A glistening, fresh, car-
neeus look, their transparency strongly contrasting with
thinly-scattered fat masses, with temlimal and apo-
neurotic fibres, and more especially with a number of small
cysts, most of which lay beneath the cut surface. These
cysts, of which we have removed no less than 20 without
breaking imp the slice, contain each of them a larva of the
well-known pork tapeworm; better understood as the
Cysticercus cellutosa,. On microscopic inspection the latter
were found to be alive, theif characteristic hooklets, suckers,
and corpuc,eln being all well formed. As we have-probably
not removed more than half the number of measle vesicles
present in this precious morsel, it would be safe to say that
the '' mouthful, "if swallowed in the condition in which we
received it, Woula give rise to the forination-iof mere ostn
thirty tapeworms in the intestinal canal the perso
who ate it. That such meat should ever i.e sold in
any
shape is simply disgusting. Fortunately our English
hams are free from these parasites. The small white
chalky deposits which one often sees in them are formed
during the salting and smoking of the flesh. Their irre-
gular form, with a size varying from that of a mere speck
to one, two, or more lines in length, at once reveals their
true character. Nevertheless, these soft secretions are
often mistaken either for trichina capsules, or, more com-
monly, for degenerated_ and calcified ra!aales.
Medical Journal.