The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-01 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

Amor AGALYST AN ArrourTET.—An action has been
biought in the Court of Queen's Bench by the widow of
Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, a lineal descendant of the
'celebrated Sheridan, against an attorney for negligence. An
action had been brought against her by a furniture dealer,
and she took the writ to the defendant, her late husband's
solicitor, and requested him to put in an appearance. This
ho did not:do,and judgment went by default. Thelawyer in
question said he had given good advice to Mrs. Sheridan,
but admitted that his clerk was in error in wtiting angry
letters to the creditor. The matter was arranged out of
court.

COIEPENSATION rou LVTRIES.—Three actions for com-
pensation for personal injuries have been heard in the
Second Court of Queen's Bench. In the first case the
plaintiff was, walking along Eastcheap in front of a
hoarding erected by the defendants while a large beam
was being brought in by the defendants' servants. He
passed is safety, but hearing the watchman call out to
him, he turned back, and was struck by the beam,
being seriously injured. The jury found for the
defendants. In the next case the verdict was
also for the defendants, who were the Metro-
politan Railway Company. The action was brought
by a Mrs. Fuller for injuries received by falling
into a cellar, ten feet deep, at the Praed-street Station,
Paddington. In the third case, a watchmaker,at Clerken-
well, sued the South-Western Railway for compensation
for injuries received by falling through a hole in the
platform of the Fareham Station. Vetdict for the plain-
tiff. Damages £3OO.
UPSETTING A TRAY OF PILLS.—A dispute between two next
door neighbours has been tried by jury in the Second
Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff, a chemist
in the Old Kent-road, was in the habit of
making up antibilious pills in a summer house
at the bottom of his garden, through which the defen-
dant was accustomed to pass to his own premises.
Once or twice he upset the trays of pills, and in conse-
quence the plaintiff closed the passage. This led to a dis-
pute and alleged trespass, and by the advice of a lawyer
the affair came into court, but was settled by the with-
drawal of a juror.

THE LONDON FINANCIAL Assoc-a:nom—The case of the
" London Financial Association v. Waring and others,' has
been heard in the Exchequer Chamber, an appeal being
made from the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas.
The action was on a promissory note, one of a large
number, upwards of £lOO,OOO being represented
by promissory notes. The question was whether
the plaintiffs were under an obligation to take
a certain number of shares in the Peterborough Railway
Company, in lieu of money, for these notes. The defen-
dants, Messrs. Waring, were the contractors for the line,
and in 1864 contracted with the company to make the
railway. (It was a contractor's line. A proposal was
made that 150,000 'shares should be handed over to
the plaintiffs, who were to provide the money, and the
Warings were to give promissory notes for the amount
with the understanding that the Financial Company
should have £150,000 worth of shares given to them, 7,500
of those shares having a preferential dividend at 5 per
cent. ; and it was agreed that the plaintiffs should have
5,500 other shares in satisfaction of the promissory
notes. The question at issue was mainly as to the
number of the preferential shares. It was understood that
the House of Lords struck out the word " preference " in
the bill brought into Parliament, though the Commons
had passed it. After a long deliberation, the court affirmed
the judgment of the court below, which was for
.the
plaintiffs—the Finan-ial Company.
THE CONTRIBUTORIES TO BARNED'S BANKING CO3I-
EANY.—The case of a contributory to Barned's Banking
Company having been stated in the Judges Chambers to
be one of great hardship, the Chief Clerk gave some advice
to all contributories who could not pay. They must state
their circumstances, and the committee appointed would
investigate and report, and no attachment would be issued

if the defaulters made a fair representation.
Tire BArrnrr's CAVE.—Seven lads, whose ages varied
from 15 to 18, were brought up at Worship-street, charged
with being concerned with others, now in custody, with
frequenting the " Bandit's Cave," at Dalston-rise, in which
a gang of young thieves had collected a variety of pro-
perty. They were sentenced to one month's imprison-
ment each, with the caution that on another occasion they
would receive a heavier punishment.
A THIRTY YEAR.° CHARACTER.—A respectable looking
man has been sentenced to twenty-one days's imprison-
ment for stealing a truss of hay, value 3s. He had been
in his master's service for thirty years, and had borne a
good character.

It is stated that the rnmonr that Sir Colman
O'Loghlen will be transferred from the post of Judge-
Advocate-General to that of Irish Attorney-General is devoid
of foundation.

ADMISSION OF LADIES TO A SWEDISH UNIVER-
siTy.— The "Carolinska Institute" in Stockholm has ex-
pressed its willingness to admit female studentsatotyowiitls
also
m
lectures in the public hall. Instruction in an
be given to ladies separately. Clinical lectureswill
be given separately to female students, but the Carolinska
Institute requires that those who join this class shall
possess tho same preparatory knowledge as the
a suc-
cessful students—viz., a degree of knowledge correspondingassed male
the so-called university certificate of havinr, p
examination in medico-philosophy. In order to
facilitate women qualifying themselves for the above class,
the indefatigable Dr. Schach has opened for ladies a,
higher course of medical instruction (in Stockholm),
amongst whom two or three have expressed their desire to
study medicine. The University of Stockholm has lately
published its programme under an organised system, and
intends to receive women students as well as men.
ARCHDEACON STOPFORD'S REMEDY FOR CRAMP.
--Some time back we published a paragraph, which was
copied in most other journals, giving Archdeacon Stop-
ford's remedy for cramp—a cork garter. A correspondent
of a contemporary writes concerning the remedy as fol-
lows:—" There can be no question regarding the efficacy of
the Archdeacon's remedy for cramp as explained in a para-
graph of a recent number of your paper. My wife, who has
been for years a martyr to attacks of this ailment, was in-
duced to try the garter remedy, and has foundthat it acted
not merely as a specific against the visits of that complaint,
hut that after feeling symptoms of an approaching attack
its application sufficed to ward off the spasm. It is to be
hoped that some others of your readers will be able to
inform the public whether it is likely to be as effectual a
specific against the cramp, wnich proves so fatal every
year to bathers. In the meantime the subject seems well
deserving the attention of medical men, for it would be
especially interesting to know in what way a simple row
of cork pellets or circlets confined between two bands of
silk, and applied in the form of a garter, can 'produce the
effect which experinkciArldpionstra.‘ol dog' iiperk the