The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-09 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE HEBBLE 1311001 L—Vice-Chancellor Malins on
Thursday gave judgment in the case of " The Attorney-
General v. the Mayor and Corporation of Halifax."

The information was filed at the relation of
Messrs. Holdsworth, wonted manufacturers, to re-
strain the corporation from pouring the sewage of the
borough into the Hebble brook, -to the injury of the
public health. The main sewer discharges itself into the

Hebble about 160 yards above Messrs. Holdsworth's mills,
and it was stated that the brook had become a public
nuisance besides injuring the property of the plaintiffs. For
the defence it was argued that the poisonous state of the
river was mainly due to manufacturing refuse. The
Vice Chancellor held that the plaintiffs were entitled to
an injunction against any new communications with
the existing outfalls, and an injunction from and
after June 1870 against pouring out sewage by
the present outfalls in an unpurified state. The plaintiffs
must have the costs of the suit and the information. His

'onour said that he believed the corporation would in

time be able to remedy the evils complained of, so as to
prevent the llebble from being a nuisance, though it
might never be a potable stream.

A GOVERNMENT CoNnucr.--In the Court of Comm'.
Pleas, on Thursday, Messrs. Tait, the eminent army
contractors, of London, sued Messrs Laing and Twine,
cloth manufacturers, of Ifaxick and Peebles, for breach
of a contract to supply the plaintiffs with a large quantity
of black tartan cloth, to enal,le them to complete a con-
tract with the War 01lice. It was agreed that the verdict,
if found for the should be entered for £3OO
damages. Verdict for the plaintiffs.

BREACH OF PROMISE. —At Guiltlimn, on Wednesday, an
inquiry was held before Mr. Secondary Potter and a special
jury to assess the damages in an action brought in one of
the superior courts for a breach of promise of marriage. The
plaintiff is MissWoodley, daughter of an English merchant,
Consul at Patras, in Greece; the defendant, Mr. Pickburn,
a surgeon, a son of the proprietor of the Clerkenwell News.
The engagement was made in Greece during the defen-
dant's travels; but some time after his return home he
broke off the engagement, on the ground that his income
was insufficient. Defendant had left England for Australia.
His counsel addressed the jury, pleading his youth, and
the Secondary, having summed up, the jury assessed the
damages at £650.

Colonel Forester's mo:ion relative to the options_
selling races has been postponed to the Second October
Sleeting of the Jockey Club.

DRIVING.—A witness who had been cautioned
to give a precise answer to every question, and not talk
about what he might think the question meant, was
interrogated as follows :—" You drive a waggon ?" " No,
sir, I do uot." —" Why, sir, did you not tell my learned
friend so this moment ?" "No, sir, I did not."—" Now,
sir, I put it to you on your oath, do you not drive a
waggon?" " No, sir."—" What is your occupation,
then ?" " I drive a horse, sir."

The English Independent says :—" It is no longer
the Fpeclal di.ty of Noncomformists or of the Liberation
Society to oppose the Peers' amendments. The result of
those amendment is simply to display the greed of the
Church, and to perpetuate the favouritism which it was
the very object of the bill to remove, and if possit,lo to efface
its very remembrance. It row rests with the Liberal patty
generally to raise afresh tho cry of justice at:el equality for
Ireland, and we shall be disappointed if that cry is not raised
loudly during tho next week. We already heat of prepara-
tions for meetings in the metropolis."

A curious case of threatened ejectment of a
Presbyterian minister has occurred at Ramsbottom, in
Lancashire. Forty years ago Mr. William Grant— one of the
" Brothers Cheeryble," of " Nicholas Nick!rby"— built
and permanently endowed a church, of which Dr. Maclean
has been for many years minister. The nephew and heir
of Mr. Grant sow intimates to Dr: Maclean that it is his
intention, as owner of the church, to termiLato the doctor's
"emplo:, ment as pastor," and to withdraw tho stipend of
which ho has been in receipt "in respect of said employ-
ment." This treatment of Dr. Maclean as "a tame Levite,"
who can bo dismissed at three months' notice, is warmly
rest nted by the Lancashire Presbytery, and steps are about
to Le taker. to resist (he V-rt•at of jeetrneut.

THE GREENLAND LADIE,S. —Women are here in
the trader's shop in abundance, most of them trying to ob-
tain goods on credit. Greenland women, as a rule, are
excessively bad housewives. Before marriage they aro
clean in their persons and attire, and everything that an
Arctic lover of right constituted mind could desire. But
once married, they sink into slatterns— careless of person,
house, and family, and negligent of the duties ex-
pected from every Greenlander's rife. There was a
great seal-hunter at Claushavn, called Timotheus David,
known, in one day, to have killed twenty-three seals and
one white whale. I saw him once bring some skins to
trade which were refused on account of their being half
rotten. "What can I do?" the poor man man replied.
" Ske" (looking cautiously around)—" She won't look
after them." This man's wife, before marriage, was
o,a taitoress in the settlement. Now she is a
dirty slattern, and will clo nothing, not even make her
husband's and children's clothes, nor even dress the skins,
as every Greenland wife is expected to do. He is camped
on an island just off sl.ore, and has come for a woman to
dress the skins, f,r uhid, ::erviee he must of coerse pay
her, while his lazy at looks on. Yet the un.
fortunate wight cannot, as in the old times of Tournour.
soak and the heathen Angekoks, send his worthless wife
about her business, because the Lutheran Church, which
he has adopted, does not allow of such a proceeding ; and
if be gives her a good caning (as she richly deserves),
or even speaks crossly to her, then she will inform the
" proester" when he conies round, and the poor man will
be read a long lecture upon the iniquity of his ways, and
for ever there will settle upon him the priestly scowl, as
ha is pointed out as a vicious creature, an example unto
all refractory seal-catchers.—From "Friends in Aisch
Latitudtelin thsaSsuAg/ jiggplediaigt,