The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

BISHOP ITLLATHORNE AND THE " UNIVERSAL NEWS."—
An application has been made in Judges' Chambers on
behalf of Messrs. Richardson and Son, the Catholic pub-
lishers of Derby, for leave to inspect and copy the files
of the Universal News, dating from the Ist of January,
1868. The proprietor of that newspaper, Mr. Clinton
Hoey, has commenced proceedings against Dr. Ulla-
thorne, the Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, for
an alleged libel contained in a pastoral, to the effect
that the Universal News was the organ of the Fenian
party in England ; and also against Messrs. Richardson
and Son, for having published the pastoral containing the
alleged libel in pamphlet form. Dr. Ullathorne pleads
justification. The application to inspect and copy the
files of the Universal News was granted on Saturday. A
vigorous effort by the friends of both litigants is being
made to have the cite settled by arbitration—the plaintiff
being the proprietor of a Roma* Catholic journal, and
one of the defendants a bishop,of the Roman Catholic
Church.

RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.—At the Old Bai-
ley, on Monday, George Roberts, aged 65, pleaded guilty
to three indictments, charging him with being at large
before the expiration of the period of transportation to which
he had been sentenced. It appeared that he had been twice
transported for life, and once for fourteen years. He was
twice sent to the colonies, but released on a ticket-of-leave,
and contrived to escape, resuming his old courses directly
he got back to this country. The prisoner said he was an
old man, and made a strong appeal to the court not to send
him back to the same punishment. He had been
treated worse than a slave, and had often been tempted to
commit murder, that he might be hung and escape from
his misery. He had endured a martyrdom for thirty years.
The Recorder said that if men offended against the laws
of their country they must take the consequences, and he
had no alternative hut to sentence him to penal servitude
for life.

THE YORK ELECTION PETIT LON.--The second
York election petition, "Burrell v. Westhead," has been
before Mr. Justice Willes, at Chambers. His lordship,
after hearing both parties, made an order for the with.
drawal on payment of costs.
TJNSPORTSNIANLIKE PROCEEDINGS IN THE BURTON
COIINTRY.—A large quantity of poison has been recently
discovered in one of Lord St. Vincent's woods at Norton
Disney, in consequence of which a universal feeling of
indignation has been aroused throughout the whole
of the Midland counties. It is generally believed
that this poison was deposited there in order to
destroy some of Mr. Chaplin's far-famed hounds. The
farmers and sportsmen of Lincolnshire are about
to memorialise Lord St. Vincent on the subject, as it
is generally believed that, in the event of any of the
hounds being either staked or poisoned, Mr. Chaplin will
throw up the Burton country without a moment's hesita•
tion. It is therefore to be hoped that Lord St. Vincent—
than whom a better sportsman or neighbour does not
exist—will at once put a stop to the dastardly acts of some
would-be sportsmen, whose names are well known
in the locality, although they may be unknown to the
sporting world.

MARRIED IN FUN BUT WEDDED IN EARNEST.--
A correspondent of the Montpellier Journal describes a
serio-comic affair which has occurred not a thousand miles
from White River Junction. The writer says : "At a
party last we. k,
at one —'B, a ter exhausting the ordi-
nary games, an I wanting something new, mock mar.
riages were proposed. Accordingly names were
drawn by lots, and 1-4 ur coup!es stool up to
be married. The ceremony was performed, and
they were duly pronounced man and wife, by the
laws of the State and before these witne2Fei.' After-
wards they ascertained the man officiating was a justice of
the peace, and the parties were legally married. One of
them, Professor
-----, ofT semis Grp, expects a lady up
fro:n below in a,, out a fortnight to marry him, and nearly
everyone involved is expecting to i.e married right
away ; one other gentleman to a laly below, and
they feel like death. 'II, y have searched all the law
books and consulted authorit:e3 far and near, and
everything only proves the knot still tighter. The justice
has been fined fifty dollars for each couple. He says he
is from another county and cannot do business here, and
supposed the marriages not to be legal. It is certainly a
funny scrape, and made still funnier by the fact that all
the parties belong to the Upper Ten.' The best opinion
and can only be divorced
is that they are legally married,
by the Legielaturc.'!_—