The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-10 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

Tim OpERA or "LA GRANDE DrcuEssE.”—ln Vice-
Chancellor Stuart's Court, an injunction has been granted
on the application of Messrs. Boosey and Co., music pub-

lishers, to restrain the defendants, whose name is Chute,
and who are members of a musical dramatic com-
pany performing at Sunderland and elsewhere, from per-
forming the opera of " La Grande Ducherse de Gerolstein
under any similar title.

THE PALL MALL GUINEA COAL COMPANY.—The Guinea
Coal Company, who carry on business at 22, Pall Mall,
obtained an injunction from Vice-Chancellor Malins to
restrain a Mr. Haley, who had left their service and set
up in business, from using the name of the Pall Mall Guinea
Coal Company. The defendant had obtained an office at
46, Pall Mall, and the Vice-Chancellor, believing this was
done with the intention to deceive, granted the injunc-
tion.

Tim BANKRUPTCY or A LEGATER,—A question of some
interest was raised, in Vice-Chancellor James's Court, in
the case of "Trappes v. Meredith," namely, whether the
annulment of an adjudication of bankruptcy prevented
the operation of a clause by which the interest given to a
legat e was by the terms of the will directed to be
forfeited upon his bankruptcy. The Vice-Chan-
cellor said that the general intention of such
gifts was the personal enjoyment of the leg,atee, and if
that was defeated by the bankruptcy, the clause of
forfeiture took effect. In the present instance, however,
the bankrupt had exerted himself and got rid of the
adjudication before the annuity which was in question
became payable. The clause of forfeiture did not conse-
quently take place. •

A SUPPLY OF JEWELLERY.—Mr. Webbing, a member of
the firm of Metcalf and Co., jewellers, brought an action
in the second court of Queen's Bench. A Mr. Watson
Forbes, a minor, married without the consent
of his relations, and the plaintiff supplied him
with jewellery to the amount of 11,500. A loan of
£3,000 was contracted with an assurance association for the
benefit of Mr. Forbes and his creditors, the plaintiff being
the nominal borrower, and the defendant, a Mr. Hickey,
and another being the securities. Of this sum
n,OOO had been raid to the plaintiff, -£2)O given
to Mr. Forbes, and the .balance was in the de-
fendant's hands. The plaintiff, alleged that it
should be handed,to him for payment of the balance due
to himself, and for the use of the minor. The judge
suggested an arrangement for the immediate repayment of
the loan, observing that the plaintiff was not without
blame in allowing so young a man to contract so large a
debt for jewels. A juror was accordingly withdrawn, each
party paying his own costs.
CONSPIRACY TO MI3RDER.—A labourer at Erdington,

named Thomas Beyie, was charged -with conspiring, with
two other men, to murder a fellow labourer. There was a
bad feeling between them owing to a law suit. The pri-
soner was bound over to keep the peace, and ordered to
pay the costs.

TILE NEW CROSS AcciDP.NT.-fThe New Cross Railway

accident on the occasion a the licensed victuallers' fête at
the Crystal Palace in June last, continues to make heavy
demands on the Brighton Company. An action has
been brought in the Sheriffs' Court by Mrs.
Bradley, a 3 executrix of her late husband, who
died from the injuries received at Now Cross, leaving
nine children. The jury awarded damages—£2,soo, £5OO

being for the widow, who, in a separate action in the same
court, was awarded £224 for personal injuries received on
the same occasion. Mr. Plank, who formely kept a public-
house in the Commercial-Road, was awarded £1,150
damages in the Secondaries' Court Guildhall, for injuries
received in the same accident, compelling him to give up
business.

TWENTY YEARS' PENAL SERTITUDE.—Lewis Kershaw
has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude at the
Manchester Assizes for pushing a woman named Sarah
Baker into the Rochdale Canal.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BIRMINGITAM.—WiIIiaM Page,
a painter, has been sentenced to eight years' penal servi-
tude for maliciously wounding Mary Allenson, at Birming-
ham. The prisoner went to lodge with the prosecutrix,
and the next morning, for some unexplained reason, struck
her on the head with a bludgeon. Ho denied having
intended to murder her. She has been in imminent
danger, but is now recovering,
DOG-FIGHTING IN THE POTTERIES.—Three men have
been charged at the Longton Police-court with causing a
fight between two bull terriers in a field near Stoke. The
animals fought for more than an hour, when one died from
its injuries, the other being carried home, where it
died the next day. Two of the men were small tradesmen,
and the other a collier, and they were the referee and ring-
leaders,the principals having absconded. They were fined
three guineas each, or three months' imprisonment in
default. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals prosecuted, and the magistrate remarked that the
society would do well to endeavour to suppress pigeon
shooting as now practised by fashionable clubs.

THE WHITTON TR AGEDY.—Mrs. Green, the
wife cf the man who murdered Mr. L ouis Keyzor
`,Vhitton some short time ago, died on Tuesday, at
Her death is attributed in a great degree to
he shock she experienced hem the incidents of the

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\tihitton tragedy.
A MISER.—AII old man was found dead the other
day in his chair at an licAtl in New York. For years he
had lived at the hotel, where ho occupied a room at the
very top of the house for the sake of cheapness. He never
allowed himself a fire, even in the coldest weather, was
always poorly clad, and partook of only one meal a day, and
that of the coarsest quality, and in the smallest quantity.
When his boxes were searched after his death, bonds and
securities representing property worth moro than £lOO,OOO
were found.