The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-18 00:00:00

A Jersey correspondent writes that early cn We,

nesday a bottle containing paraffin oil was thrown through
the ledromn window of Mr. P. Manby, who resides at
No. 21, Regent-road, in St. Tie Hers. The object of the
would-be assassin was apparently to hit the gas bracket,
which was burning near the window, but fortunately

the bottle struck lower than the light, and the liquid was
scattered harmlessly about the floor. Mr. Manby, his wife,
and two children slept in the room, and Lad the diabolical
attempt been successful the consequences would have been
most deplorable.

BROTHER CELTS.—At the conclusion of the
Bishop of Peterborough's remarkable speech in the House
of Lords on the Irish Church Bill on Tuesday night, the
cheering, which lasted for several minutes, had hardly
died away before the ex-Chancellor, Lords Cairns, was
seen to advance across the Rouse from the Opposition
benches, to offer warm congratulations to his lordship on
his brilliant, and, we believe, " maiden" speech. Both
the ex-Chancellor and the Bishop are Irishmen, and
neither of them have yet attained 50 years of age.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —On Thursday after-
noon, Mr. Codd, the coroner for the Northern division of
Essex, opened an inquiry at Wickham, on the Witham
and Maldon branch of the Great Eastern Railway, re-
specting an accident on the line, by which a stoker named
Day lost his life and an engine•driver was much injured.
The accident happened to the last train from Witham and
Maldon. As the train approached Wickham station, the
engine suddenly left the rails, and went over into a field.
The stoker died on the spot, and the driver was much
hurt. The inquest was adjourned.
THE SUTHERLAND GOLDFIELDS.-11ELMSDALE,
Monday.—Now that the diggers see that the flats are to
be given out as digging claims, all hands are busy at
work on their old claims on the burns, which, it is
understood, must be worked out before the authorities
will grant an extension of the digging area. Many of
the men are looking with wistful eyes to the upper
reaches of the Suisgill burn, where a few of them
had been prospecting, and found gold in paying quan-
tities ; and one reason of so many sticking to the work,
which at present is believed in many cases to be doing
little more than enabling both ends to meet, is the prospect
of getting claims marked out at an early date on the
coveted ground. There are one or two terraces at the
mouth of the Suisgill burn, where it crosses the road, that
the miners have a great eye to, and would give a large
rnci for the working of, but, unfortunately for the digger,
these said terraces are level, and yield good grass, which
the farmer looks upon as good as gold, and will not give
up for any ordinary consideration.—Northern Ensign.
THE SUNDAY ACT.—An important case, involv-
ing a question of right on the part of a beerseller to sell
provisions or other articles within the closehours, has come

before Messrs. E. Birley and W. Winstanley, borough
magistrates, at the Preston Police-court. George Grayson,
provision dea!er and beerseller, Park-road, was charged
with a breach of the Sunday Act, in selling half-an-ounce

of tobacco at 11.40 a.m. on Sunday, the 6th inst. Mr.
Blackhurst, for the prosecution, said there was an internal
communication between the defendant's shop and beer-
house, and the question was whether a man carrying
on the trade of a beerseller could legally sell provi-
sions or other articles in that shop during the hours
in which beerhouses must be closed on the Sunday.
Policemen Byrnes and Charnley deposed to seeing the
sale of the tobacco at the time mentioned by the
defendant, who told them they had no right to enter
his house by the shop.door. They went forward,
but found nothing wrong in the beerhouse. Mr. Watson,
for the defence, said this case was the first of the kind
that had come before the bench, although the Act had
been in operation many years. Some time ago a ques-
tion was raised whether persons should be permitted
to have shops in connection with beerhouses. The
Act of Parliament was intended to prohibit the sale
of beer in illegal hours to persons pretending to
purchase other articles ; but in this case the
places of sale were totally distinct—one for the sale of
provisions, and the other for the sale of beer. The beer-
house license did not mention the shop. He then called
Mr. David Murdoch, excise officer, who stated that the
shop was not included in the license, in which all the
rooms in the beerhouse were specified and described, were
correspondingly numbered in the house itself, and were all
exclusive of the shop. The street numbers of the
shop and beerhouse were 19 and 20 respectiv9ly. The
I magistrates reserved their decision until Saturday, tl
26th inst.