The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A TfiEvrarcAL atm-LA case of some interest to the
theatrical world, was held in the Court of Common
Pleas on Monday. The plaintiff was Mr. Corbyn,
a theatrical agent, and the defendant, Mr. Bandmann,
the American actor. Through the agency of
the plaintiff tho defendant was engaged at the
Lyceum, and Mr. Bandmann agreed to pay the agent
15 per cent. of all the moneys received from Mr. Smith
or his agents. The plaintiff had recovered £4l 15s. in a
previous action, and he now sought to recover commission
on further sums paid to the defendant by Mr. Smith.
Mr. Justice Lyles had nonsuited him on the ground
that the previous verdict exhausted the agreement, and
no further action could be maintained. The court decided
that the nonsuit had been properly entered, and the rule
was discharged.

ACCIDENT IN THE STREETS.—A coal carter was on
Monday charged at Southwark with having driven over
and killed an old man in the Borough. He was remanded,
the magistrate remarking that many fatal accidents might
be prevented by a little came on the part of the driver!.
THE PERFORMING BEAR.—The keepers of the perform-
ing bear have been again the subject of a police prosecu-
tion. They were brought before the sitting magistrate at
Lambeth, and each was fined 20s. and costs for obstruct-
ing the thoroughfare. The fine was paid, the men once
more promising to leave the country. •
SINGULAR CAEE. —A woman attended at the Marylebone
Police-court, on Monday, to state that while her little boy
George Henry Hedges, was with some other children in
the playground of a school in Marylebone on Friday last,
a man called for him and took him away, telling the
schoolmistross that he was the child's stepfather. The
statement was totally false, and neither the child nor the
man has since been heaid of.
SINGULAR CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—Mr. John Bruce, of
the Stock Exchange, and of Astwick Manor, Hatfield,
was charged before the Hertford county magistrates with
assaulting his housemaid, Angelina Prior. It was stated
that Mr. and Mrs. Bruce came down into the kitchen and
complained of the housemaid's conduct. The com-
plainant called her mistress a wicked woman, and Mr.
Bruce said, " I will settle her," and knocked her down.
She struck him in self-defence, when he knocked her down
again and kicked her. Early next morning she went to
the police-station. The magistrates imposed a fine of £lO.
One of their number wished to commit the prisoner.
UNDERGRADUATES IN TROUBLE.—At the Vice• Cha-
ncellor's Court, Oxford, Messrs. George Barlow, Herbert
William Ozanne, and Charles Edward Abney, under-
graduates of Exeter College, were charged with trespass-
ing on land belonging to Mr. Faulkner, at Hincksey, in
pursuit of game. After a lengthened hearing, the Vice-
Chancellor fined the defendants ss. each.
GREAT ROBBERY OF SILK. —At the Greenwich Police-
court two men have been charged with entering the pre-
mises of Messrs. Tripp, drapers, of Blackheath, and
stealing property valued at £l,lOO. They were remanded.
THE JEWEL ROBBERY.—At Newcastle, the prisoners
charged with stealing a quantity of jewellery from Messrs.
Lister, silversmiths, of Newcastle, were sentenced to six
months' imprisonment, with hard labour—the utmost
punishment the bench could inflict.

A man, named Fortune, aged 68, died at Swin-
don (Wilts) last week, and was duly buried at Chippeuham.
In accordance with his last will and testament the whole
of the coffin film:tare, including the breastplate, was
painted yellow, indicative of tile political principles lie had
advanced iu his life.
TIFPEItIRY PItOPERTY.-By way of proof that
property is not depreciated in value in Tipperary, it is
mentioned that a nobleman has just purchased a demesne
on the banks of the Snir for -C30,000, which was bought
fourteen years ago for 217,000, and had been in the
interval resold for 224,500.
Balm AND WEST OF ENGLAND SITOIV.—The five
days' exhibition of the Bath and West of England. and
Southern Counties Asso.iation opens at Southampton on
Monday next with the public judging of cattle. sheep,
horses, pigs, and poultry. What with live stock; birds,
machinery, flowers, pictures, art manufactures:, and
music, there is really nothing else in the kingdom like the
popular show of the Western Society ; and now that the
southern provinces have added their zeal and their
resources, we look for a spectacle of extraordinary
interest. The eccasion, in fact, will be to the south what
the great Royal Show at Manchester will be to the north
and to the midland districts. The Southampton show is
of very large dimensions; the classes in every department
are well filled ; the situation is excellent ; the railway
arrangements good ; and a most successful meeting is
therefore confidently anticipated,— Chamber of .4fiiicultlire
Journal. .