The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-18 00:00:00

LAW AND POLIO.

THE EARL OF DURITA3I.—The Lord Chancellor on
Wednesday heard an appeal in the case of Charlton v.
the Earl of Durham. It will be remembered that some
time ago Vice-Chancellor James decided in the earl's
favour. The matter in dispute was the sum of £2,500,
with interest, paid by the Earl to one of the executors of
bis creditar. This executor gave the receipt in due form,
but appropriated the money, and his co-executor
demanded another payment from the Earl of
Durham. The Lord Chancellor dismissed the appeal,
with costs, without calling on the counsel for the defence.
BATING IN THE NEW MEAT MARKET.—At Guildhall, On
Wednesday, several salesmen holding premises in the new
meat market were summoned for non-payment of rates.
The point in dispute was their liability, as they had under.
stood that all rates and taxes were included in the rent
they paid to the Corporation of London. The summonses
were adjourned for a fortnight, to allow an answer to be
received from the Corporation on the subject.
AN INGENIOUS FRAUD.—On Wednesday a letter stamper
in the Post Office was charged at Bow-street on two
summonses—one for having removed unobliterated stamps
upon certain envelopes, and the second for having supplied
obliterated stamps in their places. Fines of £lO and £5
were inflicted for these offences.

INHUMAN PARENTS.—A painful case of parental cruelty
was heard at the Lewes Assizes, where a man named
erancis Jones, a lodging-house keeper at Hastings, was
indicted for cruelly beating with a cane his little crippled
child, 2 years old. The evidence shewed that both father
and mother disliked the poor child, and ill-treated it,
and the surgeons who had examined it proved
.that
it had been severely beaten. The child has since
died, though the charge was for ill-treatment, not for
causing death. The man was found guilty, and the judge,
after severely censuring him, sentenced bim to twelve
months' bard lahr;ur.

A STARVING FLOCK OF SIIEEP.—A large farmer, having
.and both at Al elmerby and Azerley, in the neighbour.
hood of Ripon, has been convicted by a county magistrate
of cruelty to a number of sheep. Towards the close of
lest year he sent 248 sheep on to the land at Azerley. It
was very bare of herbage, and the shepherd told his em-
ployer that the sheep were starving. The defendant pro-
mised to send some cotton•cake, and other fodder; but he
neglected to do so, and the sheep began to die. The shep-
herd threw up his employment, and carcasses of dead sheep
were seen lying here and there on the farm. The officers of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were
made aware of the case, and when they saw the defendant
he offered them £lOO not to prosecute him. Forty or fifty
sheep died from hunger, and the magistrate considered the
case so disgraceful that he felt disposed to commit the
defendant to gaol. However, he inflicted a penalty of
£2los. for each of the sheep, besides costs. The defendant
had to pay altogether £55 Bs. 4d., and at the request of the
gentleman representing the prosecutors, £25 out of it was
paid over to the treasurer of the Ripon Dispensary instead
of to the informer.

A corrected report of the speech delivered by Mr.
Gladstone on the introduction of the Irish Church Bill,
March 1, will be pul lished by Mr. Murray.

Baron Tauchnitz has already sold five editions of
five thousand each of Tischendorf's English New Testa-
ment, which we lately brought to the notice of ou
readers.

The Countess of Derwentwater has, it is said,
instituted a suit in the Queen's Bench in support of hex
claim, " Radcliffe v. Pattison," but this cannot come on
till after the Easter Term. Whether the facts of the
Countess's claim will be gone into on that occasion, or
the mere right of obstructing the highway, remains to be
seen. Mr. Manisty, Q.C., and Mr. Mellish, Q.C., are
opposed in this cause, being retained to argue for the
respective parties.

in extraordinary swindle has been discovered at
Liberton, near Edinburgh, by which a publican was swin-
dled out. of £l5. A barrel of whisky came into his posses-
sion, when it was found that about half a gallon of whisky
was contained in a tube placed immediately beneath the
bunghole, and that outside the tube the barrel was filled
with water. A number of other cases of a similar cha-
racter have recently occurred in the district. The police
are making exertions to discover the offenders.
A DOMESTIC DiumA.—ln what has been called
the " Agony Column" of the Times we have seldom en-
countered a more succinct and comprehensive drama of
private lifekthan that which the subjoined advertisement
seems to disclose to the malicious curiosity of a scandal-
loving public :-- "P D C E.—Papa has arrived. Knows
' all.' I refused your name. Fearful scene. Proposed.
Accepted. Should we meet, ' Remember,' utter strangers,
Don't write, unsafe. Pity and forget me. Farewell for
ever,—Greenwich." Like the sensation pieces of the
period, this is a vague yet compact sketch of a series of
powerful situations, wanting only the aid of scenery, and
leaving the dialogue to the reader's imagination. Bluely
the young lady might have found it safe to commit her
everlasting farewell to the penny post, instead of adver.
tieing it for the benefit of young ladies in general whose
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