The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-14 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A DIFFICULT APPOINTMENT.—In the Rolls Court, on
Tuesday, in the case of the Accidental Death Insurance
Company, a question was raised as to the appointment
of an official liquidator. No less than five candidates
were put forward by different sections of the share-
holders and by the creditors. His lordship said such
applications should be disposed of in Chambers where the
real facts were known. He gave the preference to Mr.
Hart, as the gentleman whom the majority of the share.
holders favoured.

THE LONDON, CHATHA3f, AND DOVER RAILWAY.—
Vice-Chancellor Stuart, on Tuesday, delivered judgment
in the suits of " Waterlow v. Sharp " and " Gardner v.
Sharp," in which the affairs of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway are being administered under the direction
of the Court of Chancery. The question was whether the
holders of debentures not payable till after the date
of the deed of the 19th of January, 1867, by which the
company vested their plant and rolling stock in
trustees to sell or let for the payment of creditors, are
entitled to the benefit of that deed. The Vice-Chancellor
decided that debenture-holders whose money was not
recoverable until after the date of the deed are not
entitled to anything except interest due to them at that
date. The language of the sixth clause was very inaccu-
rate ; but the practice of the court as to creditors holding
securities was to be followed, and the debenture-holders
entitled to payment under the deed were not bound to
deduct the value of their security.

THE E ATEST ATTEMPTED ASSASSINA
TION IN IRELAND.

A correspondent of Saunderes News Letter, writing
from Athenry, gives the following particulars of the
attempted assassination of Captain Thomas D. Lambert,
J.P.,of Castle Lambert :—"Early on Tuesday morning in-
formation reached Captain Lopdell that Captain Thomas
D. Lambert had been tired at and dangerously wounded.
Captain Lopdell accordingly proceeded at five o'clock this
morning to Castle Lambert, when he found the Captain
in bed, having four wounds in his body, two in his
stomach, one in his side, and one in his head. Captain
Lambert said he had been at Moor Park during the
day, the residence of his brother, Giles Eyre Lambert,
and that he arrived at Lome about nine o'clock, when
he saw a strange man in his lawn. Going up towards
him to know his reason for being there, the young
man fired a revolver at him. Being a good distance
off, the shot did not take effect. Captain Lambert
kept still advancing when the young man fired again,
and this time the shot struck him in the groin. A third
was fired, which struck him in the side ; a fourth, when
the grain of shot struck the watch in his pocket, and
flattened it ; a fifth, which struck him over the left eye
and grazed along the bone. This shot brought the
Captain to the ground, and the would-be assassin then
retreated. The Captain then gathered as much strength as
enabled him to make for his own door; but he no sooner
knocked at it than he fell down in a swoon. His brother
happened to be in the Castle atthe time, and by the use of
stimulants the wounded gentleman was soon restored to
consciousness. After relating what had taken place,
he said the man who fired at him was of slight make,
with black trousers and a jerry hat, and he added, ' If
Barrett's son had been in the country I would have said
it was he.' The police were immediately communicated
with, and scouts sent out in all directions. Ultimately
Constable Healey arrested young Barrett in the railway
train between Athenry and Woodlawn stations. The
constable, who was travelling in the same carriage with
the prisoner, observed something suspicious in his demea-
nour, and on epuestioning him, received answers as to
where he had come from and where he was going, which
his railway-ticket shewed to be untrue. He was taken
into custody, and has been lodged in Galway Gaol.
Barrett is a young man about 25 years of age, of
respectable appearance, and holds a situation in the
General Post Office, London. He graduated in the
Galway Queen's College a few years ago, and got the
situation through the interest of the father of the gentle-
man whose life he attempted to take. It appears that
«th
Barrett's father had recently been ejected from his farm
by &ptain Lambert, because he had advised a neighbour
to take an action against the Captain for false imprison-
ment, which action was tried at the last spring assizes in
Galway, and £BO damages got against Captain Lambert."
The injured man is likely to recover.

A Cabinet Council will be held on Saturday next.

A foppish fellow advised a friend not to marry a
poor girl, as he would find matrimony with poverty "up
hill work." " Good," said his friend, " I would rather go
up hill than down, any time."

The following inscription is actually to be found
in an ancient cemetery in Eockville, Eastern Massachu-
setts :—" In memory of Jane Bent, who kicked up her
heels and away she went."

" Circumstances alter cases, your know," said a
rich old miser to his nephew who had lost a fortune, and
consequently his uncle's friendship. "I repeat, sir, that
circumstances alter cases." "Yes, uncle, I see they do,
especially when they are reduced circumstances."

The special correspondent of the Birmingham Post,
a member of Parliament, telegraphs that when the news that
the Lords had accepted concurrent endowment was brought
to MrtiGladstone his features assumed an expression of the
deepeff concern. He then left the house with Mr. Glyn.
" The amendment," the co rrespondent add,, will bo stre-
nously opposed by the Government. There is a rumour
that it will be taken up by Mr. Disraeli in defiance of Lord
Cairns. Three-fourths of his adherents only want his sig-
nal to vote for it. The Earl of Derby sounded the note
of defiance, entreating the Tory Peers to stand by the
amendments, and threw the respon:ib:lity on the other
house. The bill has never been in Filch peril. The Prin-
cess Louise and Prince Arthur remained until after the
division in the Lords."

THE PUBLIC HEALTU.—Last week the rate of
mortality was 21 per 1,000 in London, as compared with
22 in 13 other large towns in the United Kingdom and
in Paris. There were registered in the metropolis
1,926 births, and 1,279 deaths, the latter having
been 71 less than the estimated number. The
deaths from zymotic diseases were 336, the cor-
rected average number being 409. Four persons
died from smallpox, 29 from measles, 85 from scarlet
fever, 6 from diphtheria, 69 from whooping-cough, 12 from
typhus fever, 18 from enteric fever, 12 from simple con-
tinued fever, and 30 from diarrhcea. The mortality from
measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, fever, and diarrhcea
was greater than in the preceding week, but the deaths
from whooping-cough exhibit a considerable decrease. The
mean temperature during last week was 64'2, or 2'5 above
the average. The entire range of temperature during the
week was more than 3) degrees.

SERIOUS RIOT AT Ross.—A riot has taken place
at Ross, Herefordshire, caused by an attempt on the part
of some of the inhabitants to assert • the right of the
public to use the pleasure grounds and gardens attached
to the Royal Hotel, which, they assert, were left by
John Kyrle, Pope's "Man of Ross," for the benefit of
the people. Twenty-one years ago a similar attempt
was made, resulting, as now, in a considerable loss
of property. The present riot grew out of the annual
celebration of a friendly society, at which it had been
before rumoured that an attempt of this kind would be
made. About seven o'clock a band of music, followed by
about 1,000 persons, paraded the streets, until they
reached the Prospect, when they commenced tearing ap
fences, pulling down gates, and committing other depre-
dations. They also forced the doors of a detached billiard-
room, smashed the crindows, and destroyed the' con-
tents. After this they collected the fences, shrubs, and
plants which they had torn up, and made a bonfire of
them, and at one time it was feared the fire would spread
to the hotel. The police, armed with cutlasses, were
unable to cope with the mob, and detachments of city
and county police were sent for from Hereford ; but by
the time they arrived the crowd had dispersed. The
magistrates have determined to have the ringleaders
arrested and tried.

ROSSINI AND THE MUSIC PDBLISHERS.—Rossini,
for composing the "Barber of Seville," received not quite
eighty pounds, together with a lodging in the house
occupied by Signor Luigi Zamboni—the future Figaro.
It may be thought that he at least got something for the
copyright of the music. He got nothing for the copyright
of the music. He did not even take the trouble to get it
engraved ; and two of the pieces, the overture (for which
the overture to " Aureliano in Palmira" was afterwards
substituted), and the scene of the music lesson (original:y
treated as a concerted piece), were lost. Rossini wrote his
operas for stagereprest ntation, and thought no more of their
publication by means of the press than did Shakepeare
and MoliZ2re of the publication of their pays. Indeed,
the first appearance of a complete edition of Rossini's
operas was to Rossini himself a surprise, and by no means
an agreeable one. He had, in fact, enough to do in producing
his works ; and, practically, had obtained for them all he
could get when he had once been paid by the theatre. IV I:at
he sod to the manager was the right of representation for two
years ; after which he had no right of any kind in his works.
Anyone might play them, anyone might engrave them.
One year after the production of the new opera, the com-
poser had the right to take back the original score from
the theatre ; and this Rossini sometimes neglected to do,
or, in the_case of the " Barber," the two missing pieces
would natphave been lost. From the publishers who en-
graved hitworks, and made large sums of money by selling
them, he never, as long as he remained in Italy, receiven
444ingt7--" Life of Booki," Lztqu44criglA Eivicyck,