The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

BARNED'S BANKING COMPANY.—In the Court of Chan-
cery an application has been made by Messrs. Coupland
Brothers, merchants, of London, Liverpool, and Bombay,
to have their proof against the e3tate of Barned's
Banking Company, which had been admitted
for the sum of £17,760 increased by the sum of
£39,035. The application had been refused by the Master
of the Rolls. The case turned upon a transaction with
1,000 bales of cotton paid for by bills of exchange, the
Banking Company having stopped payment before the bills
matured. The company had given the letter of credit
against which the bills were to be drawn; but as the bills,
when presented for acce tance, were to be accompanied by
bills of lading of the cotton, Lord Justice Giffard held that
the company were only liable for the difference between
the amount of the bills and the proceeds of the cotton, and
the appeal must be refused, with costs.
A FALLING BRICK.—In the Bail Court a labouring man
brought an action for compensation for injuries received by
the falling of a brick on his shoulder from the Rotherhithe
arch of tile Brighton Railway. His shoulder was dislo-
cated, and he was ten weeks out of employment.
Damages, £35.

BREACH Os' PROUISFory unromantic action for
breach of promise was brought in the Court of Exchequer,by
a lady, named Gale, against Mr. Richardson, a surveyor.
The plaintiff, in 18(32, being then 2,1 years of age, formed
an engagement with the defendant, who was then 13. In
the course of last year the defendant showed an inclination
to break off the engagement. When the plaintiff complained
Lf his conduct, he said he didn't see why he should marry the
plaintiff without money when he could marry somebody
else who would keep him for life. The defendant, it ap-
peared, was engaged to be married to a Miss Harriscn at
that time, and whom he has since married. Upon the
final interview between the plaintiff and defendant, the
plaintiff said if he did not marry her she would " breach "
him, to which he replied, if she did, he would go through
the Court of Bankruptcy. The defendant's counsel said
he could not resist a verdict, but the case was not one
where large damages ought to be given. Damages £5OO.

THE WESTERN COUNTIES MANURE COSITANT.—An
action has been brought, in the Court of Common Pleas,
by the Western Counties and General Manure Company,
to recover £4BO due upon a guarantee. The plaintiffs
carried on business as manure manufacturers at Tor-
point, near Devonport, and the defendant was an innkeeper
in Cornwall. The defendant's son was one of their agents, and
the defendant gave a guarantee for £5OO for the manure
supplied to him. The defence was that the defendant did
not know the state of his son's affairs when he signed the
guarantee ; in particular, that he was not informed
that his son was then indebted to the plaintiffs
in upwards of £5OO. A further plea was that the
plaintiff could not read writing, and did not
know what he had signed. Sufficient time not having been
given to the debtor to pay £l3B, Lord Chief Justice Bovill
held that the plaintiffs could not recover that amount upon
the guarantee, but that the fact did not vitiate their claim
ur on the remainder. Verdict for the plaintiffs for D-12,
execution Icing stayed so that the full court might be
moved upon some points of law.
A. JUDGE ON DRUNKENNESS.—At the opening of the
Winter Assizes fcr the Home Circuit, Mr. Baron Pigott,
in charging the jury, remarked upon the number of crimes
of violence which resulted from immoderate thinking
in public-houses and beershops. It appeared to. him
that if the habit of excessive drinking could be got rid of
nearly all the cases that came under his observation might
be scratched out. It was remarkable that with few excep-
tions these cases occurred on Saturday nights, and in every
case in the present calendar the parties accused came out
of a beershop or public-house. He exhorted the grand
jury and all others present to set their faces against this
excessive drinking, for it was too much the habit to look
on it with toleration.

SUNDAY REFRESHMENTS AT RAILWAY STATIONS.-Mr.
Joshua Williams, of the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, has
been suu m3ned for keeping open the refreshment-room
for the sale of liquors during prohibited hours. The
defence was that the place was kept open on Sunday
simply for the supply of railway travellers. The magi-
strate said applicants should be asked whether they were
travellers. It was contended that this was impracticable,
but the magistrate said this offence must be put a stop to,
and the defendant would have no excuse if he offended
'titer this warning.

A WISE EXCHANGE.—Two Irishman caught in
a storm, took refuge under a tree. One was well-dressed,
the other had on an old suit. The well-dressed Milesian
said to his comrade, " Mickey, let us change coats. Mine
is a bran new one, and I don't want to be harmed by the
rain. Yours is a poor one, and the rain can't hurt it." The
exchange was soon effected.
LORD RECTORSHIP OF ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.
—lt is now almost certain that there will be a contest
for the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen University. Mr.
Grant Duff, M.P., has consented to stand; and Sir Wil-
liam Stirling Maxwell is also a candidate for the acade-
mical honour. Great excitement prevails in anticipation
of the contest, which will take place on the 24th inst.

A CURE THROUGH FRIGHT.—Some amusing
cases might be related of the wonderful manner in which
illness is cured by violent emotion, especially gout. Thus
the poet Southey tells the case of a Mr. Bradford. "No
persuasions could have induced him to put his feet to the
ground or to believe it possible that he could walk. He
was sitting with his legs up, in the full costume of that
respectable and orthodox disease, when the ceiling, being
somewhat old, part of it give way, and down came a fine
nest of rats, old and young together, plump upon him. He
had what is called an antipathy to these creatures, and
forgetting the gout in the horror which their visitation
excited, sprang from his easy chair and fairly ran down
stairs."—" The Romance of Medicine," in London Society.

LIBER A TING A SLAVE. The An glo-Brazilian
Times records a curious circumstance as happening at Rio
de Janeiro, on October 13, during a sale of Manchester
goods at the warehouse of Messrs. William Moon and Co.,
of Liverpool. It appears that a slave was taken to the
warehouse for sale, and that, on an appeal being made to
the generosity of the dealers present, he was bought by
the dealers there, and set at liberty—a subscription large
enough having been collected in the room. It is not stated
whose property the slave was ; but it shews the state of
slavery in Brazil, when a slave is sometimes sold, even in
an English warehouse, among " other " articles of mer-
chandise.-3Thnehester Examiner.

rim. KING OF THE BELGIANS AND THE LORD
Yort.—On Thursday the Lord Mayor received the fol-
lowing cominunieltion frcm the Belgian Minister at the
C,.urt of ht. James's, in reference to the recent visit of the
King of the Belgians to this country, and expressive of
his Majesty's gratitude for the cordial reception accorded
to him on the occasion:—"My Lcrd Mayor,—My august
cveieign, the King cf the Bel:jai:3, when quitting
tlw hospitable shores of Encland,most i.,articularly desired

Inc to express to you once more, lord, and
through you to all thoec who contributed to the grand
national demonstration of which he had been the object, how
deeply he has been touched by, and how grateful he is fox
it. His Majesty will preserve the most affectionate recol-
lection of the proofs of sympathy and interest which have
been so prodiga:ly displayed to him, and of which you,
my lord, and the municiral authorities of the other parts
of the United Kingdom, have been such excellent inter-
preters. I have great pleasure in at once performing this
agreeable duty, and in taking advantage of the opportunity
which it affords me of expressing my sense of gratitude
for the terms of esteem and affection with which you
spoke of my dear country.—l have the honour to remain,
&c.. Baron 13EavLIEV. London. Nov. N."